ABSTRACT

 

School Leadership in Diverse Contexts demonstrates the centrality of context to understanding school leadership. It offers varied portrayals of leadership in a diverse range of distinct settings. Each chapter highlights the prominence of context in understanding the realities of school leadership, focusing on issues and influences that school leaders face, strategies school leaders adopt to deal with the complexities of their work, and conceptualisations of school leadership relevant to the context.

An impressive array of international experts examine this neglected area of research by considering school leadership in nine heterogeneous contexts, providing rich and varied portrayals of school leadership and suggesting ways in which the leadership may be enhanced.

School Leadership in Diverse Contexts is an ideal book for undergraduate and postgraduate students, particularly those studying units in educational leadership, comparative education and educational policy. Similarly undergraduate and postgraduate students engaged with development studies, history, sociology, law, human geography will be attracted to this text.

chapter 4|14 pages

Small Rural School Leadership

Creating opportunity through collaboration

chapter 5|19 pages

Leading Primary Schools in Post-Conflict Rwanda

Some current concerns of the practitioners

chapter 6|17 pages

Leading Schools in Times of Conflict

Between a rock and a hard place: a case study from the borderlands of Ireland

chapter 9|20 pages

Leading Autonomous Schools

Academies, leadership and the self-improving school system in England

chapter 10|19 pages

Leading as State Agents

Narratives of Shanghai principals

chapter 11|18 pages

Leadership and Emotions

Promoting social justice

chapter 12|13 pages

School Leadership in Diverse Contexts

Picking up the thread through the labyrinth